find of the day

[kaberett]

A conference abstract entitled The geochemical composition of frost flowers in the Alaskan Arctic and their role in mercury deposition.

(Today I have mostly been wrestling with LaTeX, after A found me subfiles when I was having a panic last night; I need to unfuck page numbering and of course there's Always More Words one could write and also I need to work out how to make stable references to the appendix that's going to exist as a spreadsheet, but -- the skeleton of the thing and the introduction is now in situ, and I maybe cried a bit about being someone who is really actually in the process of making a thesis.)

Comments

[gumbie_cat]

Re: the spreadsheet, I'd recommend talking to somebody from the library if you haven't already. Research data management is a big thing at the moment. I don't know much about it personally (once conversations get to a certain level of technical detail I can only nod and smile) but I know some of my colleagues working on our repository have had to deal with all sorts of odd types of data. This is the sort of problem we live for!

[kaberett]

Yup! The main issue is honestly just working out how to set up my referencing in LaTeX -- like, normally I'd go "here's the thing, here's a label for it, now I'll just ref that" but I can't stick LaTeX labels in a spreadsheet, so...

[alexseanchai]

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dear laptop/dw/somebody, stop turning the red=heart-exclamation emoji into the one that looks like plain text, it doesn't go with the other emojis that way at all

[emperor]

Ah, subfiles looks nice - I solved the similar problem for my th*s*s with a Makefile and some seddery, which was a bit gross...